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most citedThe Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

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74 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

SAMI and TNG-Cluster: tracing galaxy spin and environmental transformation across cluster phase-space and cosmic time

Gustavo F. Gonçalves, Ilaria Marini, A. Fraser-McKelvie +4

The dense environment of galaxy clusters suppresses star formation and alters the kinematic properties of infalling satellites through gas stripping, tidal interactions, gravitatio…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GECKOS survey: Assembly history of the lenticular galaxy NGC 3957

Yuchen Ding, Marie Martig, Ling Zhu +24

We analyse the assembly history of the edge-on lenticular galaxy NGC 3957 using deep integral-field spectroscopic MUSE data from the GECKOS survey. By applying a dust-corrected Mul…

astro-ph.GA2026

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Linking Tidal Features and Orbit Populations Using Schwarzschild Modelling

T. H. Rutherford, J. van de Sande, S. M. Croom +11

The evolution of angular momentum in galaxies is shaped by a combination of internal secular processes and external mechanisms such as mergers. Orbit-superposition based dynamical…

astro-ph.GA2026

What's Missing in AGN Feedback? Lessons learnt from Magneticum, IllustrisTNG and Simba

D. T. Mazengo, P. Popesso, I. Marini +20

Accurately balancing gas reservoirs, star formation, and feedback across cosmic time remains a central challenge for galaxy formation models in modern hydrodynamical simulations. W…

astro-ph.GA2026

A steep mass transition for bar-driven ISM structuring revealed by PHANGS-JWST

Eric Emsellem, Jessica Sutter, Ryan Chown +26

Galactic bars play a critical role in the secular evolution of their hosts by reorganising the ISM. We use a sample of 57 star-forming disc galaxies observed with JWST at 3 and 7.7…

astro-ph.GA2026

Characterizing the Formation and Evolution of S0-galaxies (CaFES-0): Revealing the origin of the mass-size relation for S0 galaxies

Diego Pallero, Yara L. Jaffe, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie +6

We investigate the structural evolution and formation pathways of lenticular (S0) galaxies using the Hydrangea suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Simulated galaxies…

astro-ph.GA2026

Characterizing the Formation and Evolution of S0-galaxies (CaFES-0): Their formation pathways around Galaxy Clusters

Diego Pallero, Yara L. Jaffé, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie +7

The formation pathways of lenticular galaxies (S0s), which lie morphologically between elliptical and spiral galaxies, remain a topic of active research. Environmental effects, mer…

astro-ph.GA2026

MAUVE-MUSE: Ionization and Kinematic Signatures of Environmental Effects on Virgo Cluster Disks

Toby Brown, Luca Cortese, Barbara Catinella +18

We present early science results from the MAUVE (Multiphase Astrophysics to Unveil the Virgo Environment) program which targets 40 Virgo Cluster galaxies to investigate the effect…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GECKOS survey: Resolving the molecular and ionised gas in the galactic outflow of ESO~484-036

J. Hernández-Yévenes, D. B. Fisher, B. Mazzilli Ciraulo +20

We present a spatially resolved, multiphase study of the outflow in the edge-on starburst galaxy ESO~484-036 from the GECKOS survey, combining VLT/MUSE H and ALMA CO(10) obse…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Radial and Vertical Structure of Molecular Gas in the Edge-On Galaxy NGC 4565

Grace Krahm, Adam K. Leroy, Jiayi Sun +11

We present high-resolution (0.94" 55 pc) ALMA CO(2-1) and 13CO(2-1) observations of the highly inclined (i~87.5 deg) galaxy NGC 4565 covering out to galactocentric radius…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GECKOS Survey: Extraplanar ionised gas in star-forming galaxies from eDIG to galaxy-scale winds

R. Elliott, D. B. Fisher, B. Mazzilli Ciraulo +19

We map the extraplanar gas, with 50-200 pc resolution, in nine star-forming galaxies using Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations from the GECKOS VLT Large Pro…

astro-ph.GA2026

The impact of ram pressure on the radio spectral index and magnetic field of NGC 4522: A high-resolution VLA continuum study

Woorak Choi, Aeree Chung, Chang-Goo Kim +8

We present high-resolution Very Large Array (VLA) continuum observations at S-band ( GHz, pc scale) and X-band ( GHz, pc scale) of the ram-pressure-stripped Virg…

astro-ph.GA2025

MAUVE-MUSE: A Star Formation-driven Outflow Caught in the Act of Quenching the Stripped Virgo Galaxy NGC 4064

Amy Attwater, Barbara Catinella, Luca Cortese +10

The rapid quenching of satellite galaxies in dense environments is often attributed to environmental processes such as ram pressure stripping. However, stripping alone cannot fully…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Multiphase Astrophysics to Unveil the Virgo Environment (MAUVE)

Barbara Catinella, Luca Cortese, Jiayi Sun +26

The Multiphase Astrophysics to Unveil the Virgo Environment (MAUVE) project is a multi-facility programme exploring how dense environments transform galaxies. Combining a VLT/MUSE…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The GECKOS Survey: Resolved, multiphase observations of mass-loading and gas density in the galactic wind of NGC 4666

Barbara Mazzilli Ciraulo, D. B. Fisher, R. Elliott +24

We present a multiphase, resolved study of the galactic wind extending from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 4666. For this we use VLT/MUSE observations from the GECKOS program and…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The GECKOS survey: Jeans anisotropic models of edge-on discs uncover the impact of dust and kinematic structures

T. H. Rutherford, A. Fraser-McKelvie, E. Emsellem +17

The central regions of disc galaxies host a rich variety of stellar structures: nuclear discs, bars, bulges, and boxy-peanut (BP) bulges. These components are often difficult to di…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The GECKOS Survey: revealing the formation history of a barred galaxy via structural decomposition and resolved spectroscopy

A. Fraser-McKelvie, D. A. Gadotti, F. Fragkoudi +10

Disentangling the (co-)evolution of individual galaxy structural components remains a difficult task, owing to the inability to cleanly isolate light from spatially overlapping com…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Origins and lifetimes of secular and tidal bars in simulated disc galaxies

Matthew Frosst, Danail Obreschkow, Aaron Ludlow +1

We investigate the formation of stellar bars in 307 Milky Way-mass disc galaxies in the TNG50 cosmological simulation. Most bars form rapidly in dynamically cold discs shortly afte…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Simulating nearby disc galaxies on the main star formation sequence II. The gas structure transition in low and high stellar mass discs

Pierrick Verwilghen, Eric Emsellem, Florent Renaud +14

Recent hydrodynamical simulations of isolated barred disc galaxies have suggested a structural change in the distribution of the interstellar medium (ISM) around a stellar mass M$_…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 22 cited

The GECKOS Survey: Identifying kinematic sub-structures in edge-on galaxies

A. Fraser-McKelvie, J. van de Sande, D. A. Gadotti +30

The vertical evolution of galactic discs is governed by the sub-structures within them. We examine the diversity of kinematic sub-structure present in the first 12 galaxies observe…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The circular velocity and halo mass functions of galaxies in the nearby Universe

Andrei Ristea, Luca Cortese, Brent Groves +3

The circular velocity function (CVF) of galaxies is a fundamental test of the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm as it traces the variation of galaxy number densities with circula…

astro-ph.GA2024

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: On the importance of applying multiple selection criteria for finding Milky Way Analogues

Sujeeporn Tuntipong, Jesse van de Sande, Scott M. Croom +10

Milky Way Analogues (MWAs) provide an alternative insight into the various pathways that lead to the formation of disk galaxies with similar properties to the Milky Way. In this st…

astro-ph.GA2024

MAUVE: A 6 kpc bipolar outflow launched from NGC 4383, one of the most HI-rich galaxies in the Virgo cluster

Adam B. Watts, Luca Cortese, Barbara Catinella +11

Stellar feedback-driven outflows are important regulators of the gas-star formation cycle. However, resolving outflow physics requires high resolution observations that can only be…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: galaxy spin is more strongly correlated with stellar population age than mass or environment

S. M. Croom, J. van de Sande, S. P. Vaughan +17

We use the SAMI Galaxy Survey to examine the drivers of galaxy spin, , in a multi-dimensional parameter space including stellar mass, stellar population age (or specific s…